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One hundred percent AI. That’s what the software concluded about a student’s
paper. One of the professors in the academic program I direct had come across
this finding and asked me what to do with it. Then another one saw the same
result—
100 percent AI—for a different paper by that student, and also
wondered:
What does this mean? I did not know. I still don’t.
The problem breaks down into more problems: whether it’s possible to know for
certain that a student used AI, what it even means to “use” AI for writing
papers, and when that use amounts to cheating. The software that had flagged
our student’s papers was also multilayered: Canvas, our courseware system, was
running Turnitin, a popular plagiarism-detection service, which had recently
installed a new AI-detection algorithm. The alleged evidence of cheating had
emerged from a nesting doll of ed-tech black boxes.
This is college life at the close of ChatGPT’s first academic year: a moil of
incrimination and confusion. In the past few weeks, I’ve talked with dozens of
educators and students who are now confronting, for the very first time, a
spate of AI “cheating.” Their stories left me reeling. Reports from on campus
hint that legitimate uses of AI in education may be indistinguishable from
unscrupulous ones, and that identifying cheaters—let alone holding them to
account—is more or less impossible."
Via Ted Kahn.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
